AMEN!

"To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."
-—Jeff Snyder-

While this certainly applies to guns, it also applies to everything else we need to do to accomodate for the behavior of criminals. From locking your car doors, to locking your home, to not going into certain parts of town. There is a whole litany of freedoms that are thwarted in this society as a result of accomodating for criminal behavior.

I say, bring back the "stocks" in the town square. It is about time we make criminal behavior not only legislatively criminal, but socially unacceptable and subject to public ridicule as well.

It's about time we commence bringing back the concept of "shame" back into the social lexicon--something the liberals have all but erased from the landscape of social interaction and discourse.

It is my opinion that the criminal behavior-imposed prison in which we live is largely a product of the liberals' need to make sure we don't shame anyone. (i.e., yes, it's true that he murdered people with an axe, but that was just a poor choice on his part. He really is a good person...)

I think there is something to be said about the old concepts of shaming and shunning.

This false sense of "self-esteem" that people have been planting in kids regardless of their behaviors within the past 30 or 40 years has done nothing but create monsters who feel good about themselves.